CHAPTER 22

PROGRESSIVE ERA
Reforms:
•	eight-hour workday
•	women’s suffrage
•	direct election of senators
•	graduated income tax
•	public ownership of utilities

These reforms:
•	began to address the problems of a nation that had crossed into modernity
•	restored confidence in America
•	introduced Americans to an age of peace, prosperity, human advancement

Progressive Era Amendments:
•	Sixteenth – graduated income tax 
•	Seventeenth – direct election of senators
•	Eighteenth – prohibition
•	Nineteenth – women’s right to vote